Together with our special guests we wish to invite you to join our upcoming webinar series. During each session our guests will share their knowledge and views with you as well as answer any questions you may have.

Drought Recovery Webinar Series

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Author: WandaLeadbeater

The Rural Support Trust is bringing a series of free webinars to all. Each week there will be a brief presentation from our special guests followed by the opportunity for Q&A. This week, find out what Industry have been doing, what business and technical advice is available during the classification of a drought and what new supports are being developed and offered to our farmers. To...

Under the 2020 classification of drought across our regions Rural Assistance Payments (RAPs) have now been made available to help farmers owners, share/contract milkers and growers. RAPs payments are to families affected by drought when their farm or orchard business cannot meet essential living costs.

NZ-wide: for drought-affected farmers, and those affected by floods eariier.

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Author: Terri Anderson

Feed planning service flyer
MPI and partner agencies DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb NZ, AgFirst and Federated Farmers are providing remote feed planning support to farmers.
How it works
This service is based on level of need and operates on three levels:
1. In the first instance, we’ll work out how much feed you need. A call to an industry or levy body will get you a free stock...